interconsultation

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ consultation.

Adjective

interconsultation (not comparable)

  1. Between consultations

Noun

interconsultation (plural interconsultations)

  1. (medicine) The act of consultation with a second professional (team member, supervisor, member of another practice, etc. ) by a first professional who has been consulted.
    • 1931, Proceedings - West Pakistan Engineering Congress, page ix:
      More particularly, this interconsultation and combination of engineers seems likely to prove of service to the financial interests of the public in the matter of labour or those work and material rates, into which the price of unskilled and temporary labour enters.
    • 2018, German López-Cortacans, Carme Ferré-Grau, José Carlos Santos, “Problems Affecting a Person's Mood”, in José Carlos Santos, John R. Cutcliffe, editors, European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing in the 21st Century, page 344:
      The existing resources, such as consultation, interconsultation, and referral, were optimized, and flexible communication mechanisms were established (via computer and telephone) so as to allow psychiatrists, family doctors,
    • 2020, L.B. Pape-Haugaard, C. Lovis, I. Cort Madsen, Digital Personalized Health and Medicine, page 1182:
      Only two users doubted the gender because it presented interconsultation with gynecology.